Patrick Ness, is an award-winning novelist. He is the author of the Chaos Walking trilogy: The Knife of Never Letting Go, The Ask and the Answer and Monsters of Men. He won the 2012 Carnegie Medal for A Monster Calls

“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
― 
Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

 

“For there are devils in the deep,
but worst are the ones
we make.”
― 
Patrick Ness, And the Ocean Was Our Sky

 

“Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?”
― 
Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

 

“War makes monsters out of men.”
― 
Patrick Ness